Kinsei Reichi

Full name: Kinsei Reichi
Age: 29 years
Race: Human
Birthplace: Toshi Ranbo, Cardinal, Earth.
Status: Active
Faction: Power Wielder Hero, Tier 3 (10,000 - 100,000)
IRL Years of Existence: 2 years, 9 months (approved Dec. 1, 2003)

Appearance

Kinsei is dark-skinned, with medium-length dreadlocked black hair usually tied back in a ponytail. He stands at five feet and ten inches, and weighs a solid 180 pounds. His typical mode of dress is a long, dark red robe similar to a floor-length toga. When seen in battle, he wears a far less cumbersome outfit.

Powers

In the power-scheme of AltDBZ, Kinsei's abilities are magical in nature, focusing entirely on elementalism, and in particular, the element of earth. He is most renowned for his ability to transform himself into living stone.

Biography

Kinsei Reichi was born in a small village, on a tropical island in the seas south of Cardinal, and west of Kame Island. He grew up as the son of the village's headman, and enjoyed some slight status for it. He had many friends in his youth, and discovered at an early age that he had a talent for speaking to the elements.

As Kinsei's father was also an accomplished shaman, this came as no surprise. He tutored his boy in the ways of the elements for many years, and Kinsei's rapport with them grew in great leaps and bounds. Eventually, he earned the notice of some in the Court of the Earth Dragon, a part of the afterlife where a great and powerful elemental dragon dwelled.

When he was 27 years old, Kinsei left home to compete in the Tenkaichi Budoukai, hoping that the spirits of the elements would help carry him to victory and bring home a fat prize purse. He hardly placed that year, and returned home disappointed. He attended the second year, however, and again, barely placed at all. While he was away, a terrible storm welled up in the seas and moved inland, rolling over the peaceful island village. Toshi Ranbo was swept away in mere seconds. Even if Kinsei had been there, it was likely that he would have been slain as well. During the course of the tournament, Kinsei was afflicted by a terrible fear-inducing spell in a match with the notorious wizard Atyhtan Ator. Under its effects he saw the destruction of his village in a massive storm. When he attempted to return home, he discovered that the vision was no mere hallucination caused by the spell, but a reflection of real events...

Kinsei became listless, wandering aimlessly across the countryside of cardinal, performing clerical duties and slaying nuisance monsters for small villages, never asking for more than a meal and a bed, and never staying for more than a day or so. Eventually, Kinsei decided to settle. He attributed it to the elements influencing his behaviour, as wanderlust was a property of air. He made a home in a small farming village named Takada, a couple hundred kilometers south of the Capitol. There he fixed up an old, small kamist shrine and has since been living there, helping the villagers grow crops, performing certain duties expected of a holy man, and providing supernatural defense for the village against threats.

Religion

Kinsei's system of belief is the very source of his power. At first glance, his religion appears almost wholly animist. To a degree, this is true. The religion originated on the now-destroyed isle of Toshi Ranbo, and had been named as Shindo, "the New Way." Shindo can best be described as minor sect of Kamism, as its adherents recognize the Kami of Earth as the spiritual leader of the religion. Beneath the Kami are the greater elemental spirits (the Five Dragons who preside over and sustain the elements), and beneath each Dragon Spirit are hosts of lesser elemental spirits - ranging in power from the handmaidens and seneschals of the Elemental Courts, to the individual spirits in every rock, stream and breath of wind.

Each elemental domain has its own language and unique systems of communication. And because of the alien nature of the spirit realm, each elemental domain views the material world through a different lens. Some practitioners of Shindo learn to communicate with the spirit realms at an early age. Those that can establish a rapport with the elements can expect great gifts and benefits to come from the relationship - the one base desire that is shared between the human and spirit realms is the desire to be recognized.